Surviving AIDS - Hardcover

Callen, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060161485 ISBN 13: 9780060161484

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1990

Synopsis

Relates the experiences of long-term survivors of AIDS and includes reports on recent medical research

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Founder of People With AIDS and a pioneer in promoting "safe sex," Callen has survived eight years since being diagnosed with AIDS. And he is not alone. He argues that the numbers of those who survive three years or more would be much greater if AIDS patients took simple prophylaxis against the pneumonia that is most likely to cause their deaths. Callen cautions that the drug AZT is highly toxic, stops DNA synthesis and in many cases actually weakens immunity. As an alternative to AZT, he recommends antiviral and immunomodulative drugs of more manageable toxicity. Among the long-term survivors he interviewed for this valuable, hope-giving manual were an intravenous drug user, a bisexual man who embraced a macrobiotic diet, gay black and Puerto Rican men and several persons with Kaposi's sarcoma.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060161485
• ISBN 13: 9780060161484
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243